it amazes me how stupid people can come across when typing.
Well we can agree on that. Of course people can be equally stupid when reading things into what is typed - when it isn't really there.
it would be senseless to let that iron go to scrap
Interesting - so you believe that it somehow makes sense, to let the abandoned clunkers rust into the ground. As they are clearly pictured doing.
We are not looking at a "Junk Yard" nor an "Automotive Recycling Center". Where all these supposed valuable parts would be available to anyone. We are looking at cars left out in a field to rot. Most likely because they were found to be worthless by the people that left them there. Perhaps they could not be taken to a Junk Yard because there was no legal title to them... Who knows?
To this point - no one knows who even owns the land, or the cars abandoned there. {might be two different individuals} So "wish" as you might - there is very little possibility that anyone could, if they wanted to - buy any of the cars or parts there.
and pisses me and every other car guy off the same if not worse than me by someone saying they need to be scrapped cause prices are high on scrap. these youngins and beer/drug addicts want to scrap everything.typical i will gladly take any thing for this because i need a beer tonight attitude.
First - I did not say "they need to be scrapped cause the prices are high on scrap". If you would like to disagree with me - please do so with what I actually typed. I typed; "With the current price of scrap iron, it is senseless to let all that scrap rust away."
As originally pictured/Posted - there are no "For Sale" nor "Contact Information" signs on the property. You nor anyone else are not able to buy anything there. Many cars have and are sinking into the ground and rusting away to nothing.
Yes, I said that "junk" abandoned in someone's field - is worth more as scrap metal than it will be worth as a pile of rust in the dirt.
"youngins"??? Personally - I grew up living behind a Shell Service Station that my Father owned from 1945-1955. I'm 66 years old this year and over the past 50 yeas I have actually, hands on, personally restored several Classic, Collectible and Special Interest Automobiles. I was Drag Racing in the 60's and Road Racing in the 70's. There really isn't much I haven't done with cars.
..theirs 30 grand in cars and parts there with a little work selling the ones that are savable and parting the other ones out.
Really? From the pictures I see about 30 vehicles - of which perhaps two or three are savable. But then one has to ask - is a 65-67 Corvair in that condition worth saving? What would it take to put that El Camino back on the road?
I'd really be interested in specifically what parts you would like to buy and what you are willing to pay for them. It would seem that you would have to get $1,000.00 in parts off of each vehicle to come up with your $30,000.00 value.
its the owners property let em sit if you got em.
If the property owner actually owns and wants to keep them - that's his right. If you see it as somehow smart or intelligent to park abandoned cars in a field and let them rust into the ground - - that's your opinion. Personally I think that is pretty stupid behavior, given all the other options that could easily have been chosen.
personally i would find the owner walk in with 15k cash in hand and try to buy the cars after explaining that nothing will be scrapped and just how much joy those piles of rust could bring some father and kid restoration team.
If you are willing to pay $15K - we should all help you find the owner.
Personally - I would NOT recommend to any Father/Child the purchase of any of these rust buckets as the basis for a restoration or rat rod project. Just too many vehicles that can be found in far better condition on the Internet today, to start with.
and who knows it may save some some kid from drugs or worse by getting them interested in cars at a young age. and maby even save a cool old pile of scrap and turn it to a piece of personalized art.
There you may have a point - there are Artists that cut up old junkers - then weld the pieces back together to make objects of "art". But then, usually they don't like trying to weld rust.
if my mom and dad wouldnt have bought me a 1948 chevy when i was 14 to build as a daily driver i would have been out no doubt doing drugs and causing trouble any ways i could. but a pile of scrap metal out of a farmers field and a tool kit incl a welder air compressor ect saved me from going down a bad road and i had the coolest rat rod any 16 yr old kid could ask for.
mom and dad i thank you for turning me on to what can be done with cars and possibly saving me from drugs and gangs.
First - I'm glad your Mother could afford to buy you your first car. If you are my age - that 1948 Chevy was only 11 years old when you got it. I don't see anything pictured that is less than 25 years old and most are over 35 years old. So to be fair a child today would get a 2000 Model Year Chevy to start with as his/her first "project".
The bottom line is - everyone can "wish" or "day dream" all the want about what could have been. In fact what was pictured was abandoned vehicles left to rust into the ground. I don't see a single part there, that anyone would actually want - that can't be found on E-Bay today in far better condition.
FWIW,
Carl B.
